Bristol

Forced Landing: A Wellington Bomber over Bristol

On the night of 1st/2nd July 1941 I was flying as Front Gunner in a Wellington Bomber returning from a raid...

War time Memories

I was at Portway school, lessons would be stopped to go out and cheer on soldiers on the Portway because...

Land Army Life

I was with a London girl and we were in logding together,We had lots of fun... One night we descided to go...

Bombed Out

My Dad was caretaker at St John's Lane Infant School when the sirens ssoudead Dad used to take Mum nd...

Concerts for the War Effort

When I was 10 years of age, my sister and i were evacuated to Ebley and we stayed with a friend of...

Bristol Swarmed

I lived on Victoria Avenue in Redfield and some sticker bombs hit the houses two-down from mine, which saw...

Bombing of Bristol Docks 11th April 1941

My mother has told me the story of her grandfather Charles Samuel Thomas who worked on Bristol Docks during...

Chicken's head story

Walking down Toronto Rd, Dad spotted a chickens head lying on the floor. ".. Later my dads letters to...

An Eventful Evening

On March 16th 1941 my sister and I went to our Grandmothers off Pennywell Road... The bodies were then...

World War Two: Memories of Fileanton Airport, Bristol

I lived near Fileanton Airport in Bristol....

Doreen Bush's Blitz

Doreen went to Marywood Grammar School and on Sundays they always walked to her grandmother's in...

Schoolboy Memories

In 1941 he was evacuated from Bristol as a schoolboy at Clifton school to Bude. In the holidays he returned...

First of my stories "Into the fire"

After basic training at Morecambe, I was posted to FILTON on ground defence of the Bristol Air-craft Works...

1941 Air Raids

On the winter of 1941 and I had gone to the cinema on my own called the 'bughouse' and we heard the...

Air Raid at Filton Aeroplane Works

But thesad story of this was that the bombing had gone right through the army and when we came out there...

Thirteen to a house.

The German planes flew over to Filton on the 25th September 1940... Filton was being badly bombed....

A War Time Memory of Phyllis R Rudd

My parents worked in Bristol at the Filton Aircraft Factory. We children were never allowed to sing that...

A Near Miss

Luckily a man in a pub called the Bull Dog came and pulled us in - he saved our lives. One day...

“Machine Gunned”

I was 9 and my brother was 13 and we wanted it because it was souvenirs and shiny... You could see the...

One of Theirs

During the blitzes on Bristol we spent the night from dusk to dawn in our Anderson shelter at the bottom of...

Nine Lives

My father and I were stood in the garden watching the enemy planes go over and they were bombing...

Make Do And Mend

Annie used to keep paper bags folded to be used again... Everything was divided into paper bags. Sugar was...

Cooking Pot in the Ground.

I lived in Elm Park, Filton, Bristol when war broke out. We brought a shank of beef and vegetables to boil...

Alan Slee

I was born at 64 Dursley Road, Shirehampton, Bristol, on 18 May 1939, and the Second World War was about to...

A close encounter

Aged 15, Lily Russ worked at a former corset making factory making parachutes as part of the war effort......

A Question, Not Exactly a Story

Fire fighters and Emergency Services approach the flaming Castle Street as our town becomes an inferno....